Chicago with the Prices

The Prices live in Texas but were in Chicago for a few days visiting family. We met up with them at the Museum of Science and Industry. It was fun to catch up on old times from graduate school!!!Julianne, Carlisle, Dacia, Alyssa


Alyssa and Riv

Bryson and Amelia practicing driving a submarine.



Kaitlyn and Frances in the submarine living quarters.







As you stood on the lights it played like a piano keyboard.

Finished Product

We picked up the finished pottery projects - they turned out really cute.




Kariana also made chocolate pretzel snowmen with the kids - they were cute and yummy.

Merry Christmas Kariana

Kariana moves away in one week! It still doesn't seem real and seriously I don't know if any of us are going to survive - we have had so much fun these past 9 months and she has spoiled us rotten. We wanted to do something special for her for Christmas so yesterday the kids and I took her to a pottery place. The kids each painted something that they can keep in their own rooms and then Kariana painted a cookie jar and had the kids put their handprints on it for her to take. It takes a week for them to get fired so I will have to post a picture of the finished products. We love you Kariana!

Washington DC

Kevin had a conference in DC and I got to tag along!!! Thanks to our great tour guide, Brody, we were able to fit in some great site-seeing...

Natural History Museum

Brody and Dacia at the Einstein Monument

World War II Monument

Air and Space Museum

Cupcakes - Long story but I wanted to try the trend of a cupcake shop - Kevin wasn't too impressed and even less when he saw there was a line and that each cupcake was $2.75 but Brody waited in the line (actually several times because we were late) and Kevin didn't even pay for his cupcake. I don't know why I forced him to get one but I did and he did like it even though he continued to make comments. I was impressed though and would even go back!

Thanks Brody for spoiling us rotten in DC and thanks Kariana for spoiling us rotten by watching the kids so we could have this fabulous getaway.

Happy Halloween

2 princesses and a sport man

Shantel's Wedding

All of us were able to go out to Shantel's wedding in Utah last Saturday. She was beautiful and all smiles (JJ looked good too:)

Kariana was an incredible bridesmaid and made sure everything was absolutely perfect for Shantel.

We loved getting to see almost everyone (we missed you Erin and Zoe), even though I didn't do very good at taking lots of photos.

Here is Grandma and Evie.

Alyssa was all smiles and loved getting loves from everyone.

Alyssa even tried to share the love with Cache.

Unfortunetly Bryson couldn't come to the wedding because he was super sick with a high fever and double ear infection. Kaitlyn made it through the first part but then she started with a fever and ended up sleeping through the whole reception. Luckily no one else got sick and everyone is better now but unfortunetly Bryson and Kaitlyn were pretty sick the whole time we were in Utah.

The day before the wedding we had a girls day at the salon and got fingers and toes done! The bride was big smiles but I think Kaitlyn may have had even more fun. She loved being a part of it all.

5000+ Miles

The end of June we went to 2 family reunions and saw some great sites. We ended up driving over 5000 miles in 2 1/2 weeks. Here are the sites we saw just on the drive to the first reunion.

Our first site was the Badlands in South Dakota!









We then went to Mt. Rushmore





Then Yellowstone






We finished that leg of the trip with the Rexburg Temple. I had fun showing the kids where I lived when I went to Ricks College and telling them about some of the fun things I did in Rexburg. The temple was absolutely beautiful!